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Students the trick masters

Recently last week I was in invigilation
duty, which was a boring job for any research scholar. Especially if he/she was
along with some other proffesor it would be unbearable. In such situation being
lonely (one man show) will feel much better; you can shout and scream on the
students without boundaries. If we are with the elder people (professors) we
should control our voice and make sure that our voice is down and should not
make them uncomfortable. The joy would be when we have another research scholar
with similar mindset accompanying us. But hardly I haven’t got any such chances
(Very sadL).
The nightmare would be 3 hours invigilation, I would be sincerely waiting for
my turn to go to cafeteria, I will be trying to run away seeing such boring and
serious students scribbling all the answer sheets. I always why our campus
students are very smart, most of them get hold of concepts very fast. I hardly
see any one working so hard, as like us when we are doing graduation. But I
always feel that this generation is fast and smart. Hence to pass time during
such boring period (invigilation) I would always try to count the number steps I walked all through the hour
and how many steps am walking for each second and so on. I tend to see weird
expression given by the students when they are writing the exam. I always feel
that do I even give such expressions when I was writing any exam. I hope I don’t.
Some students would be watching some wall and talking, I guess they are
discussing with themselves. Some would even stare at me for long time, I don’t know
how to handle such situation, and instead I will give a smile. But I guess they
are full of thoughts, they don’t even recognize what my expression is. After
realizing this I will be moving away from that place. The biggest surprise for me is the open book
exam. Though the professor or lecture tells us that they can use book in the
exam to answer questions. But I bet that people who solely depend on text book
without preparation cannot write single question completely, because student
will be turning pages half of the examination time.

Another interesting observation was,
first year rites can do some tricks with the pen between the figures. Some will
turn the pen 3600 like helicopter wings; some would rotate the pen
vertically with the index, middle and thumb fingers. Some would even manage to
do all kinds of rotation with all available fingers. It was surprising for me;
they do this when they are thinking. I always want to take a video how they do
this tricks. But I am sure that if I do that they would be giving me a good pose.
I don’t know how they can concentrate both
on the subject they are writing and on the tricks they are doing. Some have an
ability to chew hard plastic cap so firmly such that it will become wrinkled
and wet by the end of the exam. I guess their teeth would become so strong such
that they can break a bone of lamb in a single bite. These activities are so
common in the students. Especially I think first year rites are more prone to
this. Because during their intermediate education (10+2) they spend more time
in studying the subject than any other activities. Might be these tricks would
be induced from the fellow students during the study hours. But I hardly
remembered me doing this, as per my observations this behavior will be lost
once they come to engineering. Because they hardly study books and hardly write
with the pen. It’s hard to believe that such activities which are unusual enter
our life and goes away without knowing.

I am PhD graduate in science, interested in writing, these are inspired by real life incidents with certain amount of fiction. I have been inspired by many authors but I like the writings which are practical. This blog is intended to express my feelings and these expression are purely one sided; does not mean to hurt others.